The emergence of multi-layered agricultural land systems and policies: A reflection over which path to take

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26380080
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social law
• Research Institution: Chuo University
• Principal Investigator: HARADA SUMITAKA 中央大学, その他部局等, 客員研究員 (50013016)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 2009年農地制度改正 / 法人企業の農業参入 / 農地中間管理機構 / 農業委員会制度改正 / 地域的農地管理 / 相続未登記・所有者不明化農地 / 遊休不耕作農地対策 / 農地制度の日仏比較

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The reform of the agricultural land system in 2009 marked a historical turning to the post-war farmland system. Based on it, the Institutions for the Intermediary Management of Farmland introduced in 2014 established the third way of farmland leasing (subleasing via the Institutions above-mentioned). Although it set out to promote the accumulation of farmland use into farmers with high productivity and the entry of business enterprises into agriculture, it could not produce the expected results. At the same time, the aging of farmers, the shrinking population and the increasing of abandoned land never stopped. The increasing of non-registered or non-claimed farmlands grew into serious problems. Facing the tendency towards smaller population and down-sized society, it is required to review the policies of agriculture which give priority to economic efficiency and to restructure the agricultural land system with an eye to the management of the entire sphere of rural communities.

Free Research Field

法学・法社会学・民法・経済法（農業法）・フランス法